If TM continues to expand its HSBB coverage sparsely by just placing minimal ports and to reserve their foothold in these areas, TNB will eventually will blocked from expanding to potential key areas where demand really exists.
My suggestion is that TNB Allo should go head on and expand directly into rich existing community areas to shake TM up. Go right into Ipoh city such as Jalan Pasir Putih/Tebing Tinggi/Jalan Bendahara where TM is still slowly expanding to serve businesses there and target new/old gated community bangalow/Semi-D home gardens around Pasir Putih off Tiger Lane(off Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah) all the way to Ipoh Gardens and Bercham.
If they don't do that, TM is already taking the dirty moves to prevent TNB from entering popular areas where real demand exists and force them to enter leftover unwanted areas where people don't bother getting home fibre internet.
Healthy competition can only exists when there are more than 2 fixed line operators in an area with different infrastructure.If there's only 1 FTTH fixed provider in your area/building, the wholesale company will likely favor their own ISP(Unifi) and force other ISPs to eat the leftovers with their unfair wholesale port pricing structure.
For TM, it is already too late for them now to play dirty and start dominating areas where you once neglected for so many years. Even if you were to start providing new ports for the waiting lists, people will NOT subscribe to your packages anymore because of it's overpriced plans.
The reference price now offered by Allo CBB/Time Home Fibre for
symmetrical 100M is RM99/mth.
Even if you managed to pull your lines earlier than TNB Allo to those who were on the Unifi waiting list for years unable to subscribe to it, will they subscribe once they find out that CBB/Time Home Fibre pricing is so much cheaper?
I'm currently on Maxis Home Fibre paying RM99/mth for symmetrical 30M for the same price other people are getting 3X more the speed I'm getting at 100Mbps. The competing ISPs other than Unifi on TM HSBB network cannot do anything because of the wholesale port pricing TM imposes on them despite being a monopoly player in Malaysia.
Why smaller fibre networks such as TNB Allo and Time Fibre can offer cheaper wholesale ports but TM can't?
Not only that, their customer installations continue to cut costs and removing essential parts that was supposed to be provided to the customer such as wall sockets and proper fusion splicing for their drop fibres.
Also they're now starting to supply cheap unknown brand routers such as AZ-Tech to recent installations but forcing them to sign 2 years contract with remaining months penalty if the customer wants early termination.
Do you think existing and future customers want to tolerate this nonsense scam like practices?
I supposed TNB have the resources to do that if they want to? As they seems to be in a much better financial state then TM.
I think TNB is trying to swiftly move into Area without Unifi to establish presence. As Ipoh having an aging population. They could only rely on brand name and pricing to attract people over as most are not tech
literate and will take anything that are present at the moment.
No body i talk to seem to be aware of their presence and the differences between Unifi HSBB and TNB Allo Network
Perhaps TNB Allo will have big enough resources in the future to take a gamble and expand into Unifi area and take their dominance away
For me It seems like TM don't know it's priority, First to be in the FTTH market still can screw up. Acquire Webe still doesn't provide enough coverage nor the capacity for rurals area
and their willingness to support aging Copper Infra rather than move everyone to Fiber which are potentially much cheaper in the long run
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